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Marie Vandenbeusch

Project Curator

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Marie Vandenbeusch is a Project Curator in the
Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan.

She joined the Museum in 2012, having worked
on temporary and permanent displays for both UK and Swiss
institutions, including a touring exhibition on Akhenaten and the
Amarna period. She was one of the curators of the exhibition
Ancient lives, new discoveries and she is now developing
international touring exhibitions, such as Pharaoh, King of
Egypt and Egyptian mummies. Exploring ancient lives.
She is part of the team of the Amara West excavations.

Her research interests are the study of
religion and magic in ancient Egypt, in particular through funerary
texts and iconography, and the history of Egyptology. She is
currently preparing the publication of her PhD dissertation on ‘The
Donkey in ancient Egyptian religion’, defended in 2016 at the
University of Geneva.